Comments on: How to Backup VMware ESX Servers

By: bongface

bongface — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:14:41 +0000

Veeam works best for me:

http://www.jhangra.com/blog/2009/07/how-to-inst...

Try it in a VM first.

By: bongface

bongface — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:14:41 +0000

Veeam works best for me:

http://www.jhangra.com/blog/2009/07/how-to-inst...

Try it in a VM first.

By: TheAnimaniac

TheAnimaniac — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:08:27 +0000

For host profiles to work you need the most costly Enterprise plus license.

By: rbrambley

rbrambley — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:16:35 +0000

I have not seen any updates from VMware on backing up ESX. In fact,
VMware seems to support the v12n community's opinion that ESX backups
are not really needed because the re install is so quick. Installation
scripts and deployment appliances fill the gap for configuration
restores. Look to vSphere 4 offers host profiles to support this
strategy as well.

If you do go to the trouble of backing up ESX, others have suggested
not backing up the grub config files.

By: Woody

Woody — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:06:54 +0000

Was there any updates with regards restroing vi3.5?
Thanks

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By: mwg

mwg — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:20:40 +0000

Speaking as an old Linux guy, I was wondering why you'd want to back up (much less restore) /etc/grub.conf or the files in /boot. A problem in grub.conf is going to prevent the server from booting. It would seem to be much safer to let ESX manage those files, and modify them if necessary with ESX tools like esxcfg-boot.

I'm a bit of a VMware n00b, though.

By: Haim Beyhan

Haim Beyhan — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:22:48 +0000

The same problem here. My server is not restarting after restore….